Campbell–Stokes Recorder: A Simple Device That Measures Sunshine
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2016
This crystal ball located outside Darwin Airport Meteorological Office, in Darwin, Australia, doesn’t look into the future, but provides inv...
The Mysterious Cart Tracks of Phrygia Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2016
In the Phrygian Valley of Turkey, in the west central part of Anatolia, are numerous so called “cart tracks” that crisscross across the land...
La Boca: Buenos Aires’ Colorful District
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2016
The neighborhood of La Boca, in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, is famous for two things —the football stadium La Bombonera, and El C...
The Town of Bull Puns
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2016
One hundred sixty kilometers north of Wellington, in New Zealand, at the junction of State Highways 1 and 3, lies the small town of Bulls. Y...
The Salt Valley of Añana
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2016
Salado Valley, in the town of Añana, in northern Spain, is rich in salt but the terrain is unwieldy. Especially, there is a shortage of flat...
Pheasant Island: The Island That Changes Sovereignty Every Six Months
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2016
Less than six kilometers before river Bidasoa, near the French-Spanish border, empties into the Atlantic Ocean, there lies a small river isl...
The Astronaut Beach House
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2016
Before astronauts get suited up and launched into space, they spends their final days relaxing with their wives and kids in a private beach ...
Temppeliaukio Church, Helsinki
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2016
In the Töölö neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland, in the middle of an ordinary residential square, a scene from the Steven Spielberg's mov...
Struve Geodetic Arc: The 2,820 Km Line That Produced The First Accurate Measurement of The Earth’s Size
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2016
From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...
The Sunken City of Baiae
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2016
The ancient Roman city of Baiae, on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, was once a popular coastal resort famous for its idyllic loca...
Mapparium: The World’s Only Inside-Out Globe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2016
The Mapparium at Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, is a huge, 30 foot tall globe of bronze and glass that has no parallel an...
The 870-Year Old Historic Sausage Kitchen of Regensburg
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2016
One hundred twenty five kilometers north of Munich lies the old medieval town of Regensburg, situated at the confluence of three rivers —the...
The Ancient Roman Walls of Hisarya
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2016
Located on the outskirts of the Sredna Gora mountain range, about 40 km north of Plovdiv, in Central Bulgaria, lies the ancient town of Hisa...
Boulder Field of Hickory Run State Park
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2016
Hickory Run State Park, located in northern Carbon County, on the Pocono Plateau of northeastern Pennsylvania, is home to one of the most st...
The Forgotten Tunnel Under Naples Filled With Vintage Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2016
One hundred and fifty meters from the large public square of Piazza del Plebiscito in central Naples, Italy, is an entrance that descends ab...
The Shrines of Aspen Mountain
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2016
Tucked in the woods surrounding the many ski areas around Aspen, in the US state of Colorado, are countless shrines and memorials. Hidden am...
Clarke Bedford’s Bizarre Art House And Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2016
On Nicholson Street in Hyattsville, in Maryland, the US, stands the outlandishly decorated house of Clarke Bedford, a retired art conservato...
8 Living Memorials Shaped Out of Trees
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2016
Building a memorial out of stone and concrete is one way to pay tribute to a person, but a truly unique and symbolic way of memorializing so...
The Cannon And The Bell: The Tsars of Moscow Kremlin
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2016
Cannons and bells have always had a special relationship. They are made from the same metals and often in the same factory. Throughout histo...
Venus of Berekhat Ram: The World’s Oldest Piece of Art That Predates Humans
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2016
To the untrained eye, this tiny piece of volcanic rock vaguely resembling a female figurine looks natural, but under the microscope, the gro...
